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xxIE UNIVERSE. 



What Force Is. 
The Beginning of Creation. 

What Matter Is. 

The Creation of the Earth. 

The Beginning of Life. 

Immortality. 

The Substance of its Environments. 

Psychic Science. 

What the "Soui, of Things" Is. 

Song of Psyche. 



BY 

L. WL. ROSE, 

2 S. STATE STREET, ELGIN, ILL. 



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Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1896, 
By L. M. ROSE, 4 i 
In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C. 



THE UNIVERSE. 



CHAPTER I. 



God is the Infinity of the Universe. 

Space is the Infinity of Matter. 

Eternity is the Infinity of Time. 

Intelligence and Will-power are the 
Infinit} 7 of Force. 

Force is the Infinity of Life. 

Life is the Infinity of Embodied 
Intelligence. 

Embodied Intelligence is the Infin- 
ity of Form. 

Form is the Infinity of Individu- 
ality. 

Individualized Intelligence is the 



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Infinity of Immortality, and is the 
crowning work of life, and the glory 
of God. 

Law is Universal and Unchanegable 
because of and like God — Infinite and 
Supreme. 

To investigate the above premises 
it is necessary to begin within the 
limits of our own knowledge. 

In the environments which surround 
us, we find life and activity in con- 
stant manifestation; and in every life 
which we examine, we find systematic 
progress. It lives its life, supplies 
its needs, grows to maturity, repro- 
duces its kind and dies. 

All life that comes within our in- 
vestigation presents the same facts 
and is governed by the same law — 
Unchangeable and Supreme. 



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That which is true within the 
limits of our knowledge, must be 
true of the whole, from the simplest 
form of life to God — as the same 
law inheres and controls the whole. 
Beautifully expressed by Alfred Ten- 
nyson: 

" Little flower in the crannied wall, 

I pluck you from the crannies. 
Hold you in my hand little flower, root and all. 
But could I know what you are all in all, 
I should know what God and man is." 

We find animal life materially em- 
bodied, capable of motion and con- 
trolled by an intelligence that directs 
action toward the fulfillment of a 
purpose. 

What is the Force that moves and 
controls? What was the Force that 
built Chicago's White City, and fill- 
ed it with the World's Exposition, 
and successfully achieved its purpose? 



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Was it the material of which it 
was made and with which it was 
filled? No! Was it the money? No! 
Was it the men who performed the 
labor? No! Was it the architects 
and engineers who performed this 
mighty work, to the admiration of 
the world? No! 

It was the united intelligence and 
will-power of all who were engaged 
in it that wrought this mighty work, 
aided by the materials, tools and ma- 
chinery, money and men. 

What rebuilt Chicago, Phoenix-like, 
when it lay in ashes and ruins? In- 
telligence and will-power were the 
forces that systematically and suc- 
cessfully undertook this work. 

It takes both, for intelligence ac- 
complishes nothing until will-power 
says do; and will-power without in- 






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telligence to direct and control, ac- 
complishes nothing but chaos and ruin; 
when operating harmoniously togeth- 
er the work is successfully done in 
proportion to the intelligence that 
directs and controls the work. 

How does the worm crawling in 
the dust move wheresoever it pleases, 
turning this way or that to get by 
some obstruction? Injure it a little 
and it tries to get away, but if you 
injure it too severely it resents, gets 
mad, and is ready to fight. It shows 
intelligence and will-power in its life 
and methods. 

All life moves by one and the same 
force — diversified in manifestation, 
according to condition, environment, 
and necessity; and the harmonious 
action of these two elements of force, 
in God, moves the universe through 



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the eternities. How? We must be- ! 
gill within the limits of our own 
knowledge and life to investigate the 
Facts in harmony with the law. 

Our bodies are organic, composed 
of many members and organs, each 
one adapted to its function, and all 
united and harmoniously adapted to 
the needs of the individual. 

This life is carried on with system, 
regularity and completeness of pur- 
pose. 

We will examine the hand in its 
construction to find the simplest form 
of life that manifests this force. We 
find the hand entirely composed or 
made up of little cells, so small that 
a powerful microscope is needed to 
see one of these little cells distinct- 
ly. It moves. It has life. It takes 
loud from that which comes in con- 



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tact with it. It grows to maturity, 
reproduces its kind and dies. 

Have these minute cells intelligence? 
They select their food, rejecting what 
they do not want. This is one evi- 
dence of it. 

We will take a knife and cut the 
hand. What is done now. The phys- 
iologist says, "Nature heals the 
wound." How? Let us see how this 
work is done. There is an increase 
of activity in this part, for the cells 
are at work — they are on extra duty. 
Labor always increases the tempera- 
ture of the body: so it does here. 
They are making material and send- 
ing" it to the place — a whitish, gluey 
substance; it will stop the bleeding* 
(if the injury is slight); it joins on 
to the living cells, forming* new cells 
until the gap is filled. 



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All keep right at work until the 
wound is healed, and the work is per- 
formed systematically and with com- 
pleteness of purpose No mistakes 
and no failures, unless some external 
force or obstruction interferes. 

Can you do as well? No! Why? 
Because your intelligence is finite, 
made up by the experiences and ob- 
servations of your life, imperfect and 
inaccurate; therefore you are liable to 
err, to make mistakes, or do the oppo- 
site of what you ought to do. 

Their intelligence is of the infinite, 
perfect and sufficient for their needs, 
inherent in all nature, and makes no 
mistakes and no progress only as new 
and changed conditions make new ne- 
cessities, and life's resources are infi- 
nite and sufficient. 

There is but one kind of Intelli- 



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g-etice in the Universe, diversified in 
expression, in quantity and quality, 
according- to tlie necessities of the 
life. From the minutest atom of life, 
to the highest human life and to God, 
it is the same — for the infinite . con- 
tains the whole, and it takes the 
whole to make the infinite; and as 
there is but one God there can be 
but one kind of any infinite element. 
There can be but one kind of intel- 
ligence in the universe, diversified in 
its manifestations. 

In the motion of the little cell it 
expands and contracts. The move- 
ment is very much like the beating* 
of the heart, the pulsating- circula- 
tion of the blood, the expansion and 
contraction of the muscle. 

When the muscle grows larg-e with 
accumulating- streng-th it means 



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work; when the work is done, and 
the muscle relaxes, diminishes in si^e, 
it means rest to the muscle; and the 
pulsation of the heart and blood 
mean the same, and the expansion 
and contraction of the cell the same. 
In all it is work and rest. 

The law is the same in all the ac- 
tivities of life. Work and rest is the 
law of all life, from the smallest 
atom of life to God; for that which 
is true within the limit of experience, 
observation and knowledge, must be 
true of the infinite whole. Condi- 
tions may change the manifestations, 
but the law is unchangeable and Su- 
preme. 

Mechanical force is governed by the 
same law. The action of all force is 
pulsatory, and is governed by the law 
of w T ork and rest. 



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The Law of Force is universal and 
unchangeable — like God. 

There is but one force in the uni- 
verse, diversified in its expression. 

The little cell not only sustains its 
life, and reproduces its kind, but 
gives living growth to the body by 
supervitalized substance that unites 
all in one concrete whole, and lastly 
it has waste and death. 

This little cell possesses all the 
characteristics of the whole body, of 
which it is not a trillionth part. Let 
us examine the life of the body and 
see if this is true. 

We take food to sustain life to 
maturity, and for the reproduction of 
our kind. What becomes of the food 
we eat? 

It is digested and distributed to 
the trillions of little cells forming 



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the body, in the due proportion and 
kind needed by each one of this very 
numerous family. 

They in turn use the food prepared 
for them to give increase to the fam- 
ily of cells and increase to the body. 

Parents, does it require intelligence 
to provide for your families and sup- 
ply each member with the necessities 
of life? — so it does here; and the in- 
finite, inherent intelligence only could 
achieve such perfect results. 

The body has a very large amount 
of waste by exhalation and excretion, 
and the supervitalized atomic emana- 
tion, evolved by the life eictivities of 
the bo:ly, which surrounds it like an 
atmosphere. 

This atomic envelope is as impal- 
pable to the senses as the air is 
without motion. 



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Some of the evidences that there is 
an atomic emanation from and sur- 
rounding* the body are: 

The dog* follows his master or 
g*ame by the scent of atoms left in 
the track, by which he recognizes 
the object of search. 

In whipping* through the obstacles 
that come in the way of the move- 
ments in passage, some of the atoms 
are separated from the body and its 
envelope so far that they cannot re- 
cover their place and they are left. 

If you will observe closely the 
movements of the dog, you will dis- 
cover that he not only scents the 
track but, as he comes comes closer 
to the object of search, he raises his 
head and scents the air, and if the 
air is sufficiently impregnated with 
the lost atoms he will leave the track 



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and take a direct course to the ob- 
ject of search. 

The different odors of persons, of 
nationalities, of races, of animals, of 
meats, of plants and flowers, all evi- 
dence the action of this law. 

If you go into the press of a 
crowd, or into close obstructions to 
your movements, you will quickly 
become exhausted through the loss 
of this atomic envelope. 

Why does the flower wilt more 
quickly when you hold : t in your 
hand and keep inhaling- the odor from 
it than when left to stand undis- 
turbed? — because you are taking* from 
it its sustaining* envelope or atmos- 
phere. 

Animals recognize their offspring 
by their odor, through the sense of 
smell, and their acquaintances, man 
or beast, in the same way. 



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The Earth is surrounded by an 
atmosphere, its supervitalized atomic 
envelope, full of all manner of atomic 
substances and life, even minerals; 
yet these are impalpable to the 
senses if there is no motion, but by 
careful investigation we have come 
to a knowledge of the facts. 

Then that which is true and in 
harmony with the law and the facts, 
in all of our observation and the 
closest investigation, must be true of 
the whole. 

All life evolves a supervitalized 
atomic living* emanation, which sur- 
rounds and belongs to it: for the 
law is supreme and cannot vary. 

The Law of Force is work and 
rest, and the primal products of the 
initial activities of force were atomic 
— embodied living* intelligence or in- 



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toll uric ether and atomic matter or 
waste — which is force at rest. 

Intelluric either is the primal, liv- 
ing- element, that enters into all life, 
and is the inherent, intelligent, con- 
trolling* element in all embodied or- 
ganic life. 

The law of life is embodied form, 
growth to maturit\ r , reproduction of 
kind and death. 

The products of life are organic 
development of individuals — supervi- 
tali'/ced, living* atomic emanation and 
waste. 

What is Intelligence? 

The Infinite Intelligence is that 
element, inherent in all nature, that 
controls all action to the fulfillment 
of its purpose. 

Finite intelligence is the result or 
knowledge, gained by experiences, or 






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the activities of the life and mind. 

Thoug-ht is the action of the mind, 
and intelligence is the product of 
thought. 

Knowledge is the food for the 
growth of the mind. The mind 
reaches out by thought to supply in- 
tellectual food, as the body reaches 
out to supply physical food. 

The mind grows only by digestion 
and assimilation of the knowledge 
gained by the experiences and obser- 
vations of life. 

Every article produced by the hu- 
man, from the savage to the highest 
civilized man, is evidence of the in- 
tellectual activities of the mind that 
produced it. 

The chair was made or produced 
by thinking, caused by necessity, — 
each simple part was made and add- 



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ed to that before it, used and en- 
joyed, modified and perfected by 
thinking*. Made in the mind first, 
and then in the material, until the 
chair as we have it is the result. 

It is the material, embodied expres- 
sion of intelligence, in form and use 
adapted to a purpose. 

If you destroy the chair the intel- 
lectual pattern or mental picture re- 
mains, and you can make as many 
material chairs as you choose — the 
same as you can make as many gar- 
ments as you please after one pat- 
tern. 

Can a garment or a form be made 
of nothing? Can anything be made 
to represent a nothing? True the 
cipher is used to fill vacant spaces 
which represent value; but the cipher 
alone has no value, and is used for 






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convenience. It might have been any 
other form so used. 

Embodied intelligence is the Infin- 
ity of Form. Form is the result of 
intellectual activity, thought, and 
cannot be made of nothing, It can- 
not take form without some sub- 
stance of which to make the form, 
for ihis is the universal law of form. 

It cannot be made of any gross ma- 
terial, but must be made of an ex- 
tremely fine material substance. 

The Photo negative or print is 
static light, which has taken form 
through the reflex action of the light 
from the object: or it takes form 
through the negative to and in the 
sensitized substance. 

In some way, with similar results, 
Intelluric Ether, acting in conjunc- 
tion with thought, becomes static in 






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the mind; and all knowledge and 
form presented to the mind and di- 
gested by it, becomes static in the 
mind — filling- the storehouse of mem- 
ory not with nothings, but with the 
accumulating* intelligence of life, sys- 
tematically and concretely grown into 
the mind or soul, as really material 
substance as the body is gross matter. 
Ignorance is the only barrier to 
man's progress, and an infinity of 
knowledge ever lies before him, en- 
couraging him on to new endeavor 
and holier aspiration to reach the 
sublime beauties of life in harmony 
with God, on the immortal, ever- 
green shores, fragrant with odors, 
crowned with eternal beauty, su- 
premely radiant with the light and 
love of God: eternity will not be 
too long for the joys of the immor- 
tal. 



CHAPTER II. 

The Beginning of Creation. 

What is Matter and how produced? 

How was the Earth created, and 
how did life begin upon -it ? 

The Beginning of Creation was 
the initial activities of the Infinite 
Force of God's Intelligence and Will- 
power — the Primal products of which 
were living, atomic, embodied intelli- 
gence; intelluric ether, and atomic 
matter — which is force at rest. 

As all embodiments are beginnings 
of formation, and all life is a begin- 
ning, and both these have their be- 
ginnings in the activities of the Infi- 



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nite Force of God, and are and ever 
have been governed by one unchange- 
able law, and as the primal, infinite 
elements of force are the equivalent of 
the infinite whole, their coitive action 
cannot accomplish more or less than 
the infinite supply of force and mat- 
ter necessary for all creative forma- 
tion; and as all living forms are 
universally composed of but two pri- 
mal parts — the gross material of the 
external body and the refined sub- 
stance of the indwelling life or soul 
— we may justly claim (until more 
knowledge demonstrates to us facts 
that shall prove to the contrary, for 
all present facts are in harmony with 
the law and sustain the premise,) 
that the beginning 'of creation was 
the primal coitive action of the ele- 
ments of force; Infinite Intelligence 



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and Will-power, which resulted in 
the products of living*, embodied at- 
omic intelligence; intelluric ether and 
waste. 

Waste is atomic matter or force at 
rest. 

Intelluric ether is the supply sub- 
stance of all life and spirit, as mat- 
ter is the supply substance of all 
physical, bodily forms. 

Dirzhavin, the Russian poet, says: 

•'But the influence of thy ligiit Divine, 

Pervading- worlds, hath reached my bosom 
too; 
Yes, in my spirit doth thy spirit shine, 

As shines the sunbeam in the drop of dew." 

Matter is force at rest — as our 
scientists have expressed it, ' • latent 
energy" — force at rest. The scien- 
tists tell us of the latent energies in 
water, wood, coal, carbon in all its 
forms, and that there is scarcely any 



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form of inert matter that cannot be 
changed from its solid, inactive condi- 
tion to the atomical condition of lib- 
erated energy and atomic matter. 

The law and the facts which hold 
good within the limit of our investi- 
gation and knowledge must be true 
of the infinite whole. 

All matter, by the law and the 
facts, must be force at rest — " latent 
energy." 

Force is composed of two elements, 
as manifested by the two movements 
of the little cell, expansion and con- 
traction. 

What two infinite elements mani- 
fest these two qualities? 

Intelligence and Will-power; and 
the united action of these two ele- 
ments produces force adapted to this 
motion of the little cell, and adapted 









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to all the activities of all life, and 
all the manifestations of force in the 
universe. 

This law is illustrated in the mix- 
ing* of acid and alkali to raise bread. 
Force cannot be made without two 
elements. 

The evidences of this face are con- 
stantly before us in all the experi- 
ences of life. The intelligent element 
of force is shown in the holding* to- 
g-ether, controlling* and directing* the 
universe, with systematic regularity 
and completeness of purpose. 

The daily, yearly and sidereal mo- 
tions, producing* all the necessary con- 
ditions for the reg'ular succession of 
the seasons, that secure to life the 
active, growing* energy of summer 
and the rest of winter, the active 
energy of the sunlig*ht of day and 



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the restful repose of night's shadows. 
Alexander Pope says: 

" All are but parts of one stupendous whole, 
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul." 

Completeness of purpose is infinite- 
ly manifested in all of the grandeur 
and sublimity of the universe. 

Intelligence is shown by the action 
of the force of gravity. It is shown 
by the action of the human intellect. 
It is shown by the action of the 
worm that crawls in the dust. It is 
shown in all vegetable life — in the 
selection and placing correctly the 
material necessary for its growth and 
formation. The infinite intelligence 
in nature is as manifest as the su-rf 
premacy of life and form. 

Will-power is the resistful and ex- 
pansive element of force, so apparent 
in all our relations to life. It always 



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leads out and resists control, but 
when it finally unites harmoniously 
with intelligence, then forceful action 
is complete. 

The two elements of force are 
shown in the motions of the earth 
and all the planets in the universe — 
combining* the centripetal and centrif- 
ugal motions. 

The two elements are illustrated 
in electricity and magnetism— positive 
and negative, male and female, intel- 
lect and heart. 

All force is composed of intelli- 
gence and Will-power, subject to one 
law, infinite and supreme. 
-V' God, in his Infinite Intelligence 
and Will-power, inheres in every atom 
of the universe, active or at rest, 
from the smallest particle that floats 
in the sunbeam, invisible, to the 



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whole; for if there is one atom in 
which God does not so inhere, then 
there is so much with no God. If 
so, when would we know where to 
draw the line and tell where God is 
and where he is not? 

From the Supi Oracle: 

44 Communicate to me His least 
name, and I will return to thee His 
greatest. Every day He is in action; 
recognize the mark of God in every 
place, The world is the image of 
God." 

The Hindo Yagur Veda says: 

14 The man who considers all be- 
ings as existing even in the Supreme 
Spirit, and the Supreme Spirit as 
pervading all things, henceforth views 
no creature with contempt." 

44 In the beginning was God," and 
it is impossible for us to know any- 



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thing* of God except as He reveals 
Himself through nature and its man- 
ifestations of truth to us. 

Intelligence and will-power being 
the crowning light by which all rev- 
elations of truth are manifest, it is 
the nearest approach we can make 
to God. 

The English poet Shelly says: 

"The awful shadow of some unseen power 
Floats throug-h among* us, 

As summer winds that creep from flower to 
flower; 

Like moonbeams that behind some puny 

mountain shower; 
It visits with inconstant g-lance 
Each human heart and countenance, 

Like hues and harmonies of evening'. " 

The coitive action of God's Infinite 
Intelligence and Will-power produced 
Primal Force — the product of which 
was intelluric ether and atomic mat- 
ter. All space was filled with at- 



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omic life and atomic matter mixed 
together. 

It is the natural action of all mix- 
ed elements of unlike natures to sep- 
arate, as daily illustrated in your 
own experiences and observations. 

Intelluric ether and atomic matter 
could not remain in that mixed con- 
dition; and, in separating*, the atoms 
of matter in the immensities of space 
were gathered in large central 
masses — the living, intelluric ether 
surrounding these masses kept press- 
ing them into smaller limits, until 
the pressure began to liberate the 
latent energy. 

Pressure always liberates the in- 
filling of matter, illustrated in wring- 
ing water from a cloth, pressing the 
juice of fruit from the pulp, and in 
nature by rain — the cause of which 



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is the compression of the clouds by 
cold pressing" the moisture out, which 
forms into drops and falls in rain. 

When water freezes the ice cannot 
hold as much heat as the water can, 
and the excess of heat is pressed out 
— illustrated in the sudden freezing 
of shallow water on the uneven sur- 
face of the ground. 

The cold forces the heat into the 
deepest parts of the water, and when 
the liberated heat can be held no 
longer inside it bursts out through 
the surface, bilging the ice, as you 
have often noticed after a rain or 
thaw in winter followed by a sudden 
freeze. 

Water in a vessel freezes on the 
outside, top and bottom, and forces 
the heat to the center until it gath- 
ers sufficient strength to break out 
at the weakest point. 



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The freezing* of water in the cavi- 
ties and crevices of rocks in quarries 
and mountains breaks immense ledges 
of rocks, and moves large boulders 
from their foundations; and along* the 
side of the precipice or mountain, 
strews the vale with broken frag- 
ments. Liberated energy cannot be 
confined to less than the limit of its 
force. 

The law controlling the action of 
fluids and finely particled matters is 
well demonstrated by the famous 
Maelstrom of the coast of Norway, 
which is caused by an opening in the 
floor of the ocean, through which the 
water rushes, and as it runs toward 
the outlet from all directions, ap- 
proaching and crowding toward the 
center, it impinges upon itself, and 
this impingement forces it into a re- 



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volving motion in the direction given 
by the strongest inflow. You can 
illustrate this with a vessel that has 
a hole in the bottom. 

The same principle is illustrated 
in the movements of the air. A 
whirlwind is caused by the local 
heating of the air, which causes it 
to expand and rise, producing a par- 
tial vacuum, then the cold air rushes in 
from all sides to fill the vacuum, but 
closing toward the center it impinges 
upon itself, and the strongest inflow 
determines the direction of the whirl. 

All whirlwinds, tornadoes and cy- 
clones develop by this principle; and 
the revolving motion draws into the 
center cold air and loose materials, 
and by compression, wringing and 
friction, liberates the latent energy 
in the enclosed whirling mass, and 



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very quickly it starts to get out of 
it, but tlie established revolving mo- 
tion carries the liberated central en- 
ergy around with it, but the strug- 
gle of the two elements of force 
causes the whirling mass to move 
forward, as manifested by the little 
whirlwinds to be seen forming any 
hot summer day. 

With the facts and the law of 
compression, of friction, and the mo- 
tion of fluids or finely particled 
masses established, we will return to 
follow the growth of our embryo 
earth or planet. 

As the vast masses of atomic mat- 
ter in the immensities of space were 
gathered together the intelluric ether 
(which is intensely cold), separating 
from and surrounding the masses 
closing in upon them from all sides, 



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compressing* the mass, and the intel- 
luric ether, pressing- toward the cen- 
ter, impinges upon itself, and pro- 
duces a revolving motion in the 
direction given by the strongest in- 
flow, followed by an increasing pres- 
sure and friction wringing motion, 
liberating the latent energies of mat- 
ter, until the accumulating energy 
resists and makes an effort to escape 
by rushing toward the outside of the 
mass; but coming in contact with 
the revolving motion it is carried 
along with it; but the impact of the 
two motions carries the mass for- 
ward in space. 

And in Time the revolving motion 
becomes the daily revolution of the 
earth or planet, and the motion for- 
ward in space becomes the yearly 
revolution of the earth or planet. 



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And time and progressive develop- 
ment bring- the planet to the condi- 
tion to support life and to its pres- 
ent state. 

The law by which the earth was 
created must be as operative today 
as it ever has been; and, as already 
noticed, we have the evidences of its 
continuous action, The aerolite, me- 
teor and comet are continual proofs 
of the present action of the law, 

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The Beginning- of Life upon the 
Karth (or any planet). 

Life and the law of its beginning- 
is universal and unchangeable, and 
as supremely operative today as it 
ever has been. 

We all know that life is constant- 
ly beginning in endless variety. 

What are the facts of its begin- 
nings? 



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First, there must be a substance 
that is in the right condition and 
environment, according* to the life 
that, is be, whether it be fly, fish or 
man. 

Second, there must be coition of 
the elements of life, male and female, 
in the substance; and these facts are 
always factors in the beginning- of 
all life within the limits of our care- 
ful investigation and knowledge. 

The elements of ' life are infinite 
and supreme: inherent in all nature. 

In all bodies of water, and espe- 
cially where there is little or no 
movement, you can find adhering to 
bodies or substances continually im- 
mersed semi-globules of substance, 
semi-transparent and gelatine-like, 
which, when you examine, are accu- 
mulations of substance without the 



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appearance of life. Close observa- 
tion has disclosed the fact that when 
any little particle comes in contact 
with one of them, that is food for it, 
the body of the globule will open at 
the point of contact and take it in, 
(but if it is not food it will not take 
it in,) and if there is anything left 
that it cannot digest it will expel the 
unused portion. 

Here is selection, rejection and ex- 
pulsion — successful actions for specific 
purposes, inherent in organic sub- 
stances, performing the duty of a 
stomach. The varying sizes show a 
growth, and it proves spontaneous 
beginning of organic life. 

The elements of life are universal, 
and the conditions of its organic be- 
ginnings are a substance in the right 
state and environment to accord with 



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the life that is to be; and if these 
conditions are met anywhere in na- 
ture, spontaneous, organic life must 
follow. 

The virility of life and its never- 
failing- presence, whenever and where- 
ever there are conditions for it, prove 
the supremacy of the vital elements 
of life; and if organic life is sponta- 
neous in one instance it is in every 
instance where condition of substance 
and the environing^ invite the ele- 
ments to unite; and life must follow, 
for it obeys the infinite mandate. 

Live! because you must! 

The simplest manifestation of force 
is in the simplest form of organic 
life, and the diversified expression of 
force keeps pace with the complexity 
of life and the changing conditions; 
and we find life a progressive devel- 



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opment from simple to complex by 
concrete growth, and the evolution of 
higher forms of life from every ad- 
vance condition of matter. 

As the acorn possesses within it 
all the possibilities of the full grown 
tree, and the infant child all the 
possibilities of the human being, so 
infinite life possesses within it the 
inherent possibilities of all life. 

From the Koran: 

u It needs not that I swear by the sunset's 

redness, 
And by the flight and its gatherings, 
And by the moon and her full, 
That from state to state shall I surely be 

carried onward." 

If we examine the progress of life 
we find that the demands of new 
conditions and new necessities devel- 
op new traits of character and pow- 
ers unknown before; and that by 



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following* the law we can change the 
nature and form of life, producing 
desirable qualities, until the original 
is lost — illustrated in the great vari- 
ety of peaches, which, in the begin- 
ning of propagation, started from a 
bitter poisonous almond. 

The wonderful changes and im- 
provements made in vegetable, flow- 
er and fruit, in endless variety, are 
accomplished by the law of change 
in condition and environment. We 
also change and improve animal life 
b} 7 the same law. 

When we examine life under na- 
ture's guidance only, we find it one 
of progressive development of new 
organs, new members and new pow- 
ers and an evolution of new forms, 
new varieties and species. 

The law is universal and unchange- 
able. Infinite life is ever new. 



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Oliver Wendell Holmes quaintly 
says, "It is better to be 70 years 
young* than 40 years old." 

Intelligence and Will-power, Force 
and Life, are inherent infinite ele- 
ments in nature, and the manifesta- 
tions of nature prove a continuity of 
progressive development and evolu- 
tion; and that which is true in all of 
our investigation and knowledge must 
be true of the whole, for God has 
no "missing* links," thoug*h man may 
fail to find them. 

God, in his infinite wisdom and 
goodness, must ever remain the ob- 
ject of man's love and adoration. 



CHAPTER III. 

Immortality and its Environments. 

Immortality or the continued exist- 
ence of the individual after the death 
of the body. 

We have asserted (and there is no 
proof to the contrary,) the fact of a 
Living, Atomic, Infinite y Intelligence- 
Substancc, Intelluric Ether, and all 
the manifestations of nature sustain 
the premise. 

Intelluric ether enters into the 
formative beginning- of all life, and is 
the controlling- and directing* element 
of all life — sustaining to the Soul 
and Spirit life a relation similar to 
lig*ht in the physical life. 



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Intelluric ether, acting* in conjunc- 
tion with thought, becomes the agent 
by which all knowledge is statically 
embodied in concrete growth in the 
mind or soul; and the soul is organ- 
ically embodied, individualized, finite 
intelligence. 

If an idea, a static mental picture, 
cannot be destroyed, then the mind 
or soul, the organic living whole, 
must continue after the death of the 
body. 

Now we want the evidences within 
the limit of our knowledge that the 
soul has an independent life in, and 
a continued life after, the death of 
the body. 

When a member or an organ of 
the body is amputated or removed 
from the body the sense of feeling 
remains dormant, but complete, and 



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under conditions liable to obtain at 
any time the sense of feeling- of the 
absent portion may be aroused. 

Portions of the body, external and 
internal, may be removed until noth- 
ing* but an imperfect trunk and head 
remains, and yet the intellectual part 
of life remains in full self-control, 
and often with apparent increased 
capacity. 

When the material body is muti- 
lated its function to that extent is 
destroyed, unless some remaining- part 
can perform its duty. 

If an arm, a limb, or a member is 
amputated or disabled, how quickly 
the indwelling* self places the remain- 
ing- members on extra or double duty. 
The mind will make members of the 
body perform work that is entirely 
foreign to their natural duties. Illus- 



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trated by the armless man who wrote, 
ate, made drawing's, and performed 
many other wonderful feats with his 
toes; and the man without arms or 
limbs who could write and draw if the 
pencil were correctly placed in his 
mouth; and the blind and deaf g*ain a 
knowledg-e throug-h the sense of feel- 
ing- entirely foreigfn to the duty of 
that sense. 

Portions of the brain may be re- 
moved, and the duties of life be met 
without any or but slig*ht impair- 
ment. 

Spencer says: 

44 For of the soul the body form doth take, 
For soul is form and doth the body make.'* 

The clairvoyant and psychometric 
qualities of the mind so far exceed 
the material senses and presence of 
the body, that the scientists acknowl- 



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edge the independent action of the 
mind. 

In the trance state of the body the 
indwelling- intelligence leaves the 
body, and may be conscious of the 
fact, and may remain present while 
another intelligence takes possession 
of the body, and uses it to express 
ideas and knowledge foreign and un- 
known to the person; who, if present, 
hears what is said the same as any 
of the audience; or the mind or soul 
may go away from the body as far 
as the magnetic cord attaching it to 
the body can be extended, and hold 
sweet communion with spirit friends 
in spirit life, and returning to the 
body may be conscious of its experi- 
ences while absent, 

The return of spirit friends after 
the death of the body has been so 



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positively demonstrated, and the spirit 
so identified, as to leave no possi- 
bility of doubt. 

All these facts and many more, 
coming" within the limit of our knowl- 
edge, are sufficient to establish the 
truth of the existence of an indwell- 
ing life, that controls and directs the. 
activities of the body, but in a meas- 
ure is independent of it and sur- 
vives its death. 

Why should we die because we 
change the house we live in or the 
raiment that we wear? 

Demand and supply are the natural 
sequences of life, and there is no de- 
mand in life without a supply in na- 
ture to meet it. 

There is in the human soul such 
an intense desire and demand for con- 
tinued life and God, so wide spread 



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and deep rooted that it cannot be in 
vain, 

All the facts of life within our 
knowledge, and the indestructibility 
of the substance, the inherent de- 
mand, the universal law, and the 
infinite goodness, wisdom and power 
of God say — you shall live! 

' ' Yea, after worms have destroyed 
my body, yet shall I live." 

All life. has a purpose in it, shown 
by the inherent intelligence b} T which 
it supplies its needs and pleasures. 

Tennyson says: 

" That nothing - walks with aimless feet, 
That not one life shall be destroyed, 
Or cast as rubbish to the void, 
When God hath made the pile complete; 

That not a worm is cloven in vain, 
That not a moth, with vain desire, 
Is shrivelled in a fruitless fire, 

Or but subserves another's gain." 



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All phases of life are the progres- 
sive steps from lower to hig*her con- 
ditions. The material which enters 
into any phase of life is refined, pre- 
paring- it in state for the evolution 
and development and support of a 
higher than the present. 

All life evolves a supervitali^ed, 
living*, atomic emanation of matter, 
so refined that we have no scientific 
means or methods of determining 
quantity or quality. 

All higher life contains the crown- 
ing aspiration of all life below T it, 
and the enlarging aspiration of its 
increasing capacity and knowledge. 

This cumulating knowledge and 
aspiration can have a no less purpose 
than immortality. 

Our spirit life is a continuation of 
this life, and must be within the do- 



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main of God; therefore it must be 
governed by the universal and un- 
changeable laws of God. 

We enter the new life with the in- 
tellectual, moral, religious and spirit- 
ual development of growth attained 
in this life, leaving behind the de- 
formities of the body; for we have 
demonstrated that the mutilations of 
the body do not mutilate mind or 
soul. 

The minute particle, that may be 
invisible through the most powerful 
microscope, is as positively substance 
as the boulder that weighs a ton; 
and the life that is invisibly small is 
as surely life as the elephant. 

The material forms of vegetable 
life are made up largely of the invisi- 
ble elements of the air, sunlight and 
moisture, and contain very little of 




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the earthy material, and when fully 
dematerialised there is but a very 
small portion of visible matter left. 

By human intelligence and will- 
power we control the character and 
formation of all mechanical, archi- 
tectural and artistic productions. 

We control more or less the char- 
acter, form and use of life. 

We control the energies of nature, 
and the intellectual activities and 
perversities of the mind. 

In this life we have to cope with 
the rigidity of solid matter, the un- 
yielding* laws of nature, the refrac- 
tory energies of life, the stubborn 
perversities of the mind and our own 
ignorance; yet see the wonderful 
achievements of human life. 

The more perfect we become in 
knowledge and wisdom the easier we 
control all things to our purposes, 



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We call your attention to the as- 
sertions of many persons, from all 
nations and in all history, who claim 
to have seen spirit life and its envi- 
ronments, by vision, clairvoyance, and 
by presence, while the body was in 
a trance or controlled by some other 
intelligence. 

Three classes of evidence, covering* 
the historic time of all nations, and 
all agreeing- in many particulars — 
agreeing that the environings of that 
life in many-ways are much like this 
life, but exceedingly transcendent in 
beauty, harmony, and perfection. 

Agreeing that the occupation of 
that life is more of choice and less 
of necessity: that it consists in do- 
ing good by helping those who need 
help, and of personal improvement, 
progress, and an enjoyment of life 
unknown in this life. 



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Agreeing that the environments 
and occupations of that life appear 
as real and substantial as this life, 
but that it is not gross solid matter 
like the objective of earth life. 

A small portion of such an array 
of evidence, upon any other subject, 
could not be ignored in any court of 
justice in any country, and yet prej- 
udice and preconceived opinion is so 
strong* that we set the evidence aside 
and even ridicule the witnesses. 

It is time we investigated this 
subject honestly, justly, and intelli- 
gently. 

If there is in the future life a re- 
alistic life and environings of land- 
scape and scenery, of mountain, vale, 
stream, forest, and verdure, of home 
dwellings and surroundings, of pub- 
lic buildings for audience and instruc- 



57 
tion, then there must be substances 
adapted to this condition a^d these 
purposes; for the formation of the 
objective, in everything" necessary, 
beneficial and useful, in the continued 
development of the life begun here; 
and as we carry our personalities with 
us an endless variety of necessities 
must follow. 

Inasmuch as we have our origin of 
life, body and environment in and of 
the gross matter of this earth, and 
that all life and matter progressively 
develop together, we cannot do other- 
wise than reasonably conclude that 
the substance of that life is the re- 
fined substance of this life; that it is 
the vitalized, living, atomic emana- 
tion of this life, refined until it en- 
ters that life with us, still adapted 
to our uses and necessities, entering 



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that life void of decay, and by com- 
binations with the Intelluric Ether, 
materialized and controlled by the 
intelligence and will-power of the 
builders there, to take form and col- 
or, quality and expression, according- 
to the merit and the progressive 
necessity of the individual for whom 
it is being made. 

All formations there remain during 
usefulness only, and then disintegrate 
or dematerialize, and the substance 
returns to the fountain sources of 
supply — all loss or waste being in 
the atomic form, drifts into space 
atomic matter, to be gathered into 
meteoric or other similar formations. 

The evidences within our knowl- 
edge are — the materialisation and de- 
materialisation of forms in this life, 
the dematerialising of substances and 



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fematerializing* of the same, and the 
materializing* and demateriali^ing* of 
substances and spirit forms. 

Spirit life and its environing*s, 
dressed in its supernal youth and 
never-failing* beauty, is a home wor- 
thy of earnest, intense desire, and 
our constant effort to attain, and is 
a glory worthy of the infinite God 
who provides, and He should receive 
all the gratitude and love that the 
mind and heart can express, and the 
purest life and the holiest adoration 
that the soul can g*ive. 

PSYCHIC SCIENCE. 
Psychic Science treats of the po- 
tencies and phenomena of the intel- 
lectual consciousness of the mind or 
soul, which is the crowning* light of 
the physical creation — taking* in all 



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of the Infinite that iies within reach 
or scope of the finite mind. 

This science rests upon four pri- 
maries, viz., intellectual consciousness 
of life: the atomic emanation of life: 
that all force or active energy seeks 
union with organic life or static rest 
in matter: that the static condition 
can be aroused by harmonic vibra- 
tion. 

1st. The fact of our intellectual 
consciousness needs no proof. 

2nd. The atomic emanation of life 
is well sustained in Chapter I. All 
atoms possess cosmical quality of the 

entirety of the individual on the 

w 
plane of life to which the atoms be- 
long*, and also includes all the life 
below but not all above the atom. 

The minutest germ of life (as of 
the acorn or infant,) possesses in it 



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all the possibilities of the full grown 
individual. 

If the law holds good within the 
limit of our knowledge, from the 
atom to the perfected individual, then 
it is supreme. 

The infinite germinal life force (in- 
telluric ether) must contain all the 
possibilities of life, from the lowest 
to the highest, else ' life would have 
a limit or rise above its source. 

All evolution is from the lower to 
the higdier in life, because of the in- 
herence in it of the highest living 
embodiment of God, at work through 
all the phenomena of nature. 
^ Mind or soul has its origin in the 
foundation of organic life, and can be 
traced from its inception in the low- 
est form of life manifested in unor- 
ganized substance, and traced through 
the evolving* progress of life. 



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Harmonic vibration of physical life 
evolves sentience in life, which ex- 
presses itself through touch, taste, 
and smell, which are but variations 
of one sense. 

Harmonic vibration of sentience in 
life evolves consciousness in life, 
which expresses itself through sight 
and hearing. 

Harmonic vibration of consciousness 
in life evolves intelligence in life, 
which expresses itself through lan- 
guage and the embodiment of ideas. 

Harmonic vibration of intelligence 
in life evolves intuition in life, by 
which we recognise the manifesta- 
tions of truth and God. 

When the personal life, in its en- 
tirety, vibrates in harmony with the 
spiritual and God, then, to whatever 
subject or parts the mind is directed, 
the exact truth will be perceived, and 



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the knowledge will be correct on that 
plane; and just as far as the lower 
planes of life can be held in accord 
with the higher planes of life, so far- 
can the exact truth be transmitted 
to the lower planes of life, providing* 
each plane has language in which to 
receive and convey the truth, which 
will depend upon two points — har- 
monic vibration and language. 

The same holds true in the ex- 
change of knowledge between indi- 
viduals. 

When, added to this, we consider 
the antagonizing, inharmonious condi- 
tion of human life to receive the 
truth, and the multitude of imper- 
fectly inspired teachers who believe 
they have the truth, ' it is no wonder 
that differences of opinion exist in 
this life or in the soul life of the 
spirit. 



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3rd. That all force or active ener- 
gy seeks unison with organic life, or 
static rest in matter, at the climax 
"of action. 

All moving* missels seek rest. Wa- 
ter seeks it level. Steam seeks the 
limit of its power. The cyclone seeks 
the complete waste of its fury. Elec- 
tricity seeks its equilibrium. 

All active energy must find union 
in organic life or static rest in mat- 
ter. 

\ The more intense the energy the 
nearer instantaneous is the climax — 
as with heat, light, and thought. 

4th. The static condition of Psyche 
can be aroused by harmonic vibra- 
tion. 

When the psychometrist comes in 
harmonic vibration with the vibrant 
life of atoms they respond as the 



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musical tone will respond to its vi- 
brating" chord: and all on the plane 
or below the plane of the atom, to 
which the mind is directed, is known 
and can be communicated; and the 
investigation can be extended as far 
as necessary if the harmony is not 
interrupted. 

These atomic emanations are static 
in every substance of presence or 
contact. 

The most potent articles for prac- 
tical experiment are a lock of hair, 
a photograph, autograph, handker- 
chief, or any article in the exclusive 
use of the individual. 

If an article has been in the use 
of, or contact with two or more per- 
sons, all may be described by the 
static atoms belonging* to each one, 
providing the atoms have sufficient 



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vitality, and the intelligence sufficient 
wisdom to separate the personalities, 
Here lies the confusion of psycho- 
metric reading*. 

So cosmical is the atom that with 
good conditions the entire character 
and general life can be read from the 
atoms. 

Psychometric reading* is so common 
that persons desiring* proof can ob- 
tain all they need. 

I will relate one very marked in- 
stance in detail for the benefit of the 
student. 

In the summer of '95, while resid- 
ing in Idaho, I frequently passed 
Julius Sorrensen's home, five miles 
below mine. He dug a well over 100 
feet deep, blasting a considerable 
portion through lava rock. I was 
interested to know what the mate- 



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rial would be at the bottom of the 
well, and called one day soon after 
it was finished. Mrs. Sorrensen only 
was at home, and, on inquiry of her, 
she stepped to the well with me, 
showing me the material, which, as 
we examined, she called my attention 
to some small, black, hard fragments 
like glass, saying they called them 
opals. She picked up one larger 
than the rest and gave it to me. I 
carried this, with other fragments of 
the same, in my portemonnaie for 
months. 

In November I returned to my pre- 
vious home in Elgin, 111., and during 
the winter I attended a public lecture 
by Mrs. Scoville, with psychometric 
readings at the close of the lecture. 
Going forward, with many others, I 
presented the opal for a reading, ex- 



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pecting to learn something of the 
substance and its surroundings. — 
Judge of my surprise when Mrs. 
Scoville described the lady who pick- 
ed up the opal, and said she was 
very fond of music — a matter of 
which I had not the least knowledge 
or suggestion. 

I returned to Idaho in May, '96. 
Before seeing Mrs. Sorrensen her 
friends told me that they knew her to 
be very fond of music and dancing. 

A day or two later I called on the 
lady, and inquired of her if the state- 
ment w r as correct. She said it was, 
and that her family of six children 
all were; even the youngest was a 
fine little singer. 

My conclusion is, that when Mrs. 
Sorrensen picked up the opal and 
handed it to me, the climax of intel- 



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lectual action centered upon the opal 
as she looked at it and also by touch; 
that both ph} r sical and intellectual 
atomic emanations became static in 
the opal, and that continued time and 
condition could have revealed her 
character and life in full. 

Mrs. Scoville^ coming* in harmonic 
vibration with the life of the static 
atoms in the opal, they responded, 
and Mrs. Scoville became cognizant 
of the person so far as her attention 
was directed to her. 

The static condition of memory so 
often aroused, and often at the near 
approach to death, the whole store- 
house of memory is vibrant with life. 
The life experiences of the person 
are statically and organicalty grown 
into the soul, as ph} T sical food is di- 
gested and grown into the physical 



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body, as real and organic in one as 
in the other. The photographing- of 
mental conditions and mental pictures, 
the memory, continued existence and 
growth of the soul, all evidence the 
substantial elements of the soul. 

At the death of the body the soul 
body is separated from the physical 
body, and is the resurrected body of 
the spirit, with which the person be- 
gins life in spirit on the shore of 
immortality. 

In the Infinite Spirit all life is in 
vibrant touch, and God knows in an 
infinite degree all that transpires in 
the universe, as we know in a finite 
degree all the experiences of our life. 

SONG OF PSYCHE. 
Iyife is a mystery tender and deep; 
Rare are the secrets it gives us to keep; 
Truest and best are its whispers of love, 
Fashioned and formed from the essence above. 



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Not from the dust, or the dew-breathing- sod, 
Fresh from the bosom and spirit of God; 
Infinite goodness! whose ultimate plan 
Finds its fruition in woman and man. 
Out from the darkness of error and wrong-, 
Love sings triumphant the conqueror's song: 
Passion flowers float with the lilies of mirth, 
Twining the joys and the sorrows of earth. 
World-wide and wondrous the power of the 

soul! 
Growth is our motto, endeavor our goal; 
Marriage of thought to the hope of the world, 
Mirrored through beauty, by wisdom unfurled. 

Spirit immortal, in substance thou art, 
Crowned in the kingdom of silence apart; 
Vast with the vibrating voice of the me, 
Pulses the thrill of the issues to be. 
All the invisible breathes in thy breath, 
Only the doubt in thee slumbers in death; 
Labor and love are the threads of the loom, 
4 'Play the sweet keys" wouldst thou keep 
them in tune. 

Emma Nickerson-Warne. 



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